Trying to decide between her old boyfriend, who betrayed her but wants her back, and the new boy with whom there are definite sparks, Cape Cod high school junior and psychic Clare is puzzled by a secret admirer even as she tries to solve the mystery of a classmate who has suddenly disappeared.
Elizabeth Channing comes to teach art at the Chatham School in 1926, bringing with her a world of experiences far different from those of the people in the small Cape Cod village, and setting off a scandal that haunts student Henry Griswald into his old age.
While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution.
Melody Logan, attempting to learn the secrets of her past, gets a summer job working for artist Kenneth Childs, a man she believes may be her real father.
Melody, hoping to finally learn the truth about her past, travels across the country to confront a woman she believes to be her mother--even though her mother supposedly died months earlier.
While spending the day alone on an island near his Cape Cod home, a fifteen-year-old suddenly finds himself transported back in time where he is befriended by a boy who will grow up to be his grandfather.
High school freshman Willa holds fundraising events at her family's Cape Cod inn to save the local library and to hook up romantically with JFK (Joseph Frances Kennelly).